Not one week after the ANC had to 'discipline' it's youth league; the party's kindergarten branch yet again runs its mouth... this time attacking deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa.

You know, for a political movement charged with uplifting and empowering South Africa’s youth, the ANC Youth League sure does a lot of, well… everything except that. Historically the league has offered up legends like Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, but in recent years the stock has been left seriously wanting, so much so that the mother party has had increasing difficulty keeping the kids from misbehaving.

Earlier this month the league pissed off the rest of the ANC after it’s president, Collen Maine, called for the defunct Umkhonto We Sizwe Military Veterans Association — we repeat, veterans — to “take up arms in defence of president Jacob Zuma. A few issues with that statement, just off the top of our heads.

In an interview with Eyewitness News, the league called Ramaphosa an unprincipled man, adding that he has double standards and that it had no confidence in him.

Unsurprisingly, they added that Ramaphosa should have backed Zuma up in the constitutional court, where the president and his loyalists attempted to disregard the Constitution on the Nkandla matter. Damn that Ramaphosa for respecting the rule of law!

Ramaphosa recently added his voice to that of civil society movements and several high-ranking ANC members, including the party’s chief whip Jackson Mthembu, in support of Gordhan, who’s expected to appear in court on fraud charges next week.

“One is very disappointed with the deputy president. I think he has double standards,” ANCYL secretary general Njabulo Nzuza said, adding that Gordhan has made it appear as if government is at war with itself – well, if the war withing the ANC itself is anything to go by –.

“We have a problem with him, issues of confidence and double standards.”

Nzuza said Ramaphosa shouldn’t pick and choose which leaders to support and which ones not to.

“He did not come out say I support President Jacob Zuma, he kept quiet. Why is he coming out now? He has double standards. On certain matters you support leaders of government and others not because they possess a high moral compass. Who owns this high moral compass?”

Chucking even more fuel on the already raging fire within the ruling party, the Youth League said it has come to doubt the credibility of the ANC’s integrity committee, which rushed to charge disgraced Western Cape ANC leader Marius Fransman on sexual harassment charges, but has been reluctant to look into the charges against Gordhan.

“When Marius Fransman was charged, the integrity committee zoomed in. Pravin Gordhan was also charged, the committee must also move in and it must not deal with matters in two different ways.”